Doctor 1313 wrote:
I'm glad the movie didn't follow the book closely. SPOILERS--I never liked that Hooper was having an affair with Ellen Brody and died as punishment for it. The passage in the book where the shark sticks its head out of the water with Hooper's dead body in its jaws just to "show" Quint and Brody seemed ridiculous to me, too.

DOCTOR 13
I've always liked that aspect of the book. But I never thought the sight of Hooper hanging from the shark's mouth was an intentional ploy by the shark. Dropping the whole affair angle for the movie, however, helped me root for Hooper and like him as a character when I saw this in the theater at age 13. Hey -- in the finished film do you ever get the impression during the dinner sequence that Ellen still is captivated by Hooper and seems to be "taken" with him?

One of the greatest films ever made, never to be duplicated (you hear that, remake fans!??!!).